Towards a Dependency-based PropBank of General Finnish

: Haverinen Katri, Laippala Veronika, Kohonen Samuel, Missilä Anna, Nyblom Jenna, Ojala Stina, Viljanen Timo, Salakoski Tapio, Ginter Filip

: N/A

: 2013

: Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings

: Proceedings of the 19th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa'13)

: 41

: 57

: 17

: 978-91-7519-589-6

: 1650-3686

: http://emmtee.net/oe/nodalida13/conference/12.pdf

In this work, we present the first results of a project aiming at a Finnish Proposition Bank, an annotated corpus of semantic roles. The annotation is based on an existing treebank of Finnish, the Turku Dependency Treebank, annotated using the well-known Stanford Dependency scheme. We describe the use of the dependency treebank for PropBanking purposes and show that both annotation layers present in the treebank are highly useful for the annotation of semantic roles. We also discuss the specific features of Finnish influencing the development of a PropBank as well as the methods employed in the annotation, and finally, we present preliminary evaluation of the annotation quality.